What is Snowflake?
Snowflake’s cloud data platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds as you see fit. Snowflake is available globally on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With a common and interchangeable code base, Snowflake delivers advantages such as global data replication, which means you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications or learn new skills.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Snowflake?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Snowflake Reviews
Ryan K.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Entertainment
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2023
With Snowflake you unleash the power of data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake has been important in helping us collect, store, and analyze telemetry data from our customers' devices. A quicker time to market was achieved because to the simplicity with which we were able to construct a pipeline from various inputs without having to consider issues of data volume or compute scalability across several divisions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Flexible data storage that can accommodate both organized and unstructured data. Dynamic computation. Freedom to pick a computer depending on specs and price. Our team's commitment to continuous discovery allows us to produce quick proofs of concept and match project goals with the organization's strategy while keeping costs to a minimum.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Although progress has been made, there is still much room for growth in the field of data visualization. Capabilities in data cataloging and administration.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The capacity to store data securely, the flexibility to process data in a variety of formats, the ability to adapt computing resources to meet changing business needs, and the ability to do so at a reasonable cost.
Pros
- Effective Service
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
Katia D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
Cloud storage solution.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
This platform has various data formats, which facilitates the storage and processing of data. Other data storage systems only support specific data formats. On the other hand, it is a fully cloud-based platform, while other data storage systems are traditionally server-based. In addition, it provides us with a unique data storage architecture, which allows efficient and scalable data storage and processing. By comparison, other traditional data storage systems are less flexible and scalable.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
This system features optimized data storage, allowing you to save data without having to worry about configuration settings. While it is extremely scalable and can be easily adjusted as needed. This allows users to increase storage, processing speed, and resources as needed. Maintains excellent security for stored data. This includes authentication, encryption, access control, and monitoring.
What do you dislike most about this product?
One of the great challenges that our company presents is that this system keeps all the data in the cloud, which means that the data is subject to hacker attacks. It also offers usage-based pricing plans, so storage costs can be very high. Also, it does not provide technical support for users, which means that users must have technical knowledge to properly administer the system.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This platform is designed to help companies harness the power of the cloud to improve the scalability, security, and flexibility of their data systems. This system provides scalability and easy management, which allows us to obtain information from our data quickly and accurately. It also provides advanced security tools to help companies keep their data systems secure. These features make Snowflake a great choice for businesses looking for a secure, scalable, and easy-to-use cloud database solution.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Madhankkumar S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Snowflake - Best solution to build your EDW !
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
The data distribution with in the database is being taken care on it own , you don't need a database administrator for most of the things since it came to us as a product feature.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1) data distribution 2) cache the data 3) various custom functions to play with.
What do you dislike most about this product?
1) Can have a dedicated scheduler UI for task . 2) Enable custom python code for more customization.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go for it ! Server less scalable architecture is the future !
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
